{"id":2441687,"date":"2026-06-02T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2441687"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:27:12","slug":"totem-pole-at-victorias-royal-bc-museum-lowered-for-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/totem-pole-at-victorias-royal-bc-museum-lowered-for-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Totem pole at Victoria\u2019s Royal BC Museum lowered for restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_info\">\n<h2 class=\"headline\">Totem pole at Victoria\u2019s Royal BC Museum lowered for restoration<\/h2>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 5:30 am Tuesday, June 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- END BYLINE -->\n                          <\/div>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<p>The totem pole located in Thunderbird Park at the Royal BC Museum was lowered on June 1 to undergo restoration work by its original artist, Kwakwaka\u2019wakw artist Richard Hunt.<\/p>\n<p>During the restoration, four carved rays will be refixed onto the pole that were loosening and coming out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want me to sink them in about two more inches, just for safety. I said they\u2019ve been here for 50 years, they haven\u2019t fallen out yet,\u201d Hunt told Victoria News.<\/p>\n<p>After completing the work, the pole will be installed again in Thunderbird Park on June 8.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blackpress.tv\/embed\/57574\/Totem_pole_at_Royal_BC_Museum_lowered_for_restoration_\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hunt first carved the pole when he was only 19 years old, working as an apprentice carver at the Royal BC Museum under the guidance of his artist father, Henry Hunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the first pole I did on my own without my dad\u2019s help,\u201d he reminisced.<\/p>\n<p>He remembered how he used to work on the shed that was at Thunderbird Park with the help of his uncle, who was the Kwakwaka\u2019wakw Nations chief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want my dad\u2019s help, so I told him, I\u2019ve got to do this on my own. And he didn\u2019t know that my uncle was telling me what to do\u2026So the figures are what he said should be on this pole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The totem pole that is being restored was completed in 1970 and stands at the centre of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt said that most of the other poles at the park need restoration work too, because some of them have been up there for almost 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe things like the beaks and the dorsal fins that are inside the wood are starting to, not rot, but shrink. So it gets loose. So they\u2019re probably going to want those things fixed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the figure at the bottom of the pole has only four fingers on his left hand because he wanted to portray his friend, who came to watch him working on the totem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he was playing with his friends, they were trying to see how close you could get to your finger with an axe. And somebody got too close and chopped it off. So he said, you should immortalize me and put me there,\u201d he said, revealing why the totem pole figure only has four fingers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sookenewsmirror.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totem pole at Victoria\u2019s Royal BC Museum lowered for restoration Published 5:30 am Tuesday, June 2, 2026 The totem pole located in Thunderbird Park at the Royal BC Museum was lowered on June 1 to undergo restoration work by its original artist, Kwakwaka\u2019wakw artist Richard Hunt. 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